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Besides everything you read about Rant becoming a movie, what are the chances it will become one? that's all i want to know, Rant was the best book i ever read, first palahnuik book i ever read, and my thought after reading it was..."there's a guy out there who thinks how i draw and joke"

but I feel the movie that has the closest tone in regards to film style is "District 9" by Neill Blomkamp

I would like to see him tackle "Rant" especially with how well he handled "District 9" and has that documentary/movie back and forth style. Think that would work with the way Rant's narrative is set up.

I realize that this is over a month old, but whatever. Do something, bitches. I would like to see a Rant movie that is kind of along the lines of a cross between A Scanner Darkly, with the eerie surrealistic cartoon feel that it has, mixed with the simplicity and the focus on dialogue that Clerks had. That would be pretty badass.

Is there any rules about what they can and can't sell as "based on a true story?"
They seem pretty lax with it now anyways.
If they ever do a movie, they ought to have a whole ad campaign before it comes out, promoting it as real and an actual story as much as possible, then on like the Monday after it comes out, have a whole new campaign about it being fictional.
Would that be too spoilerly?

aaaannnnddddddd downloading "The Stand". I'll let you know in a week or so. I think with night vs day, party crash culture, time travel, wrapping your head around Rant/Chet/GTS, and all of the stuff Neddy Nelson and Pheobe Truffeau touch on. It would be a shame to have that stuff altered or removed

I always had this idea of doing something similar to the way the audiobook to Rant was done. By having different people reading for the characters. This wouldn't be like a movie or anything, but just another way to experience the entire book visually along with hearing it. It would be filmed like testimonials with different people playing each character. It would be the whole book acted out to the viewer as if you're sitting there and having these people talk to you. What slows the audiobook down is every time the same character comes back to speak, they have to say their day or nighttimer status along with occupation over and over again. But by doing it visually, they can say it the first time while having their info come up on the screen. Every time after that, you can just put the info on the screen instead of the speaker saying it again and again every time before they speak their part. It would be cool to actually have actors/actresses that look the part speak their testimonial. So it would be like an audio/visual-book in a way. Like I said, this is meant to be a movie or mini-series, just another way to experience the book. I would sit down and watch it if it was done well and properly. I wish we could organize something like that... with a Kickstarter and everything. It would take some organization and making sure the people filming their parts know what they are doing. Each person would have to dress for the part and read through everything that their character says throughout the whole book. Once you get everyone's full testimonial, then you just edit it to fit the order and structure of the book. You can even have the titles of each chapter come up on screen when the screen goes black for a moment and returns to the next character's testimonial. The audiobook is 10 hours long... but with the way people act out and speak their parts, I think it wouldn't be nearly as long. Especially the way audiobooks take things slow for the listener to follow along. I think you would be able to cut a couple of hours from that, especially not having to say "I'm a day/nighttimer and my occupation is..." over and over since the info would be on the screen. Just an idea I always had. I really wish I had the ability to put something like this together. I'm a huge fan of the book and think this would be an amazing way to re-experience it. I can't imagine Rant as a 2 hour movie... there's just TOO MUCH going on and many rich characters that you can dive into. Where's HBO or Netflix at? Bring it to the small screen as a series. I know Chuck said he had the sequel ready, but just doesn't know in what form he wants to deliver it. Why not continue the Rant sequels as a series? Trilogy right? That's 3 seasons worth of Chuck-awesomeness. But my idea as a video testimonial is something that I can see dedicated fans being able to put together themselves.

This could go in that unpopular opinion thread to I bet, but I'm going to put it in here.
George Lucas should direct a Rant movie.

Just, for the love of all things that are great and holy, don't let him write the screenplay.
He did a pretty great job with American Graffiti and with all the car stuff and crashing in Rant, he could probably pull it off.

Plus, i think Chuck has said that Rant was supposed to be set in the mid to late-70's, so that's not that much of a leap time-wise from American Graffiti.

Although, a better statement might be to let 1970's George Lucas direct it. I don't know about the guy now. He seems to sit down a lot while making a movie.

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